Speaker: Anirudh Mendiratta
Staff Software Engineer, Playback Lifecycle @Netflix, Previously @Amazon Prime Video and @fuboTV
Anirudh Mendiratta is an engineer on the Playback Lifecycle team at Netflix who has been instrumental in launching live streaming at Netflix. Anirudh has 10+ years of experience as a distributed systems engineer, primarily in the video streaming domain. Prior to Netflix, he built a live video observability platform at Amazon Prime Video and built live video ingestion, storage and delivery systems at fuboTV.
Together with Benjamin Fedorka, Anirudh pioneered service-level prioritized load shedding allowing Netflix to handle live events at unprecedented scale.
Session
Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix
How does Netflix maintain a seamless viewing experience for millions of users, especially during traffic spikes or when backend datastores are overloaded? Autoscaling can help during traffic spikes, but it costs money, takes a few minutes to kick in, and capacity may not always be available.
Date
Monday Nov 17
